Technology is taking a huge role in helping people control their health. While many IoT technologies keep us tracked and connected during the day, EarlySense, a startup who creates patient monitoring solutions, created a wellness sensor that tracks sleep patterns from under a mattress. The sensor runs on SAP HANA Cloud Platform and helps identify and prevent health issues before they start.

A little over a month I challenged a number of technology vendors who had shifted their messaging to customer experience from something else to customer experience to show me how they could defend that transition - to show me how it was more than hot air - smoke and mirrors. So far Get Satisfaction and now SAP have met the challenge. Read it. SAP more than answered it.

Let me start this with a strange and seemingly incoherent (but truly more inchoate) statement."If SAP marketed to the rest of the world, the way they produce conferences, they could arguably become the best technology company on the planet.

Hasso Plattner, one of the five co-founders of SAP and chairman of its supervisory board, clarified the potential that HANA, SAP's in-memory database technology, will have on the company's future — from both technical and strategic standpoints.

SAP plans to move its applications to its own Sybase-powered database platform, and mix in a heavy dose of HANA in-memory technology. The game plan: push long-time database partner Oracle out of the way, and take a bigger chunk of the enterprise IT-spending pie.